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The first Game Hack Day sponsored by NYHacker took place this past weekend at General Assembly. Kudos to John Britton for putting it all together and gathering the sponsors (Riot Games) along with reserving the space. Around 20 teams hacked for just over 24 hours and resulting in new friendships, ne
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Over at Rhizome, Joanne McNeil points to an interesting post on nature of Google Street View with some fun insights on screens. (We’re really into screens for obvious reasons.): Lee Friedlander took a series of photographs in the 1960’s that included screens (that were in a 1995 exhibit and subsequ
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Enjoy some easy, instant mainstream videogame news! –Deadly Premonition creator is one publisher short of a new game. –Become Nancy Botwin in this new Facebook game based on Showtime’s Weeds. -Capcom plans to make replay ability a thing of the past. -Digital gamers are closing the playtime gap wi
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Of the many wonderful uses of games, teaching people how to make pasta was not on our radar as a high priority need. Nonetheless, for researchers at the University of Bologna, the highly dextrous task rolling tortellini was a must. “We chose tortellini for two reasons,” explained professor of compu
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Ryan Challinor, an engineer at Harmonix who worked on Dance Central, sent us a note about his new project Synapse that he was working on for Burning Man. He wrote: It’s easy to install on anyone’s computer, it’s open source, and it gives you a user-friendly interface to control music and visuals in
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In case you were curious about how Watson, the Jeopardy-winning supercomputer, works up close, PC Mag took a deep dive. Keep your friends close and enemies closer, as they say: Is Watson considered artificial intelligence? Chu-Carroll said it depends on your definition of AI. If you define AI as mim
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Inspired by watching her little brother struggle to make a tic-tac-toe program, Hannah Wyman, 10, decided to start making games of her own using Microsoft’s Kodu programming language. “He was programming tic-tac-toe, and for something as simple as tic-tac-toe he was up there for hours just trying
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More Carrie Schneider work here.
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Area/Code co-founder Kevin Slavin posted observations on a video of Salesforce.com’s chief scientist on the problem of “gamification.” JP Rangaswami says: “I have neither the intent or wish to put the lipstick of gamification on the pig of work because the solution is not to make work a pig and the
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All from London-based designer Sebastian Bergne. [via]